Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...
Communist Reporter Gregory Staktopoulos and his mother, Anna, were in jail. Communist Leader Adam Mouzenides, named as the trigger man, and one Evangelos Vasvanas were at large. According to the official version, the killing was plotted by the Cominform, executed by the Greek Communist Party in the hope that it could be blamed on rightists and used to discredit the Greek government in the eyes of the world...
...Century Massachusetts Yankee, went broke after his cotton gin invention was widely pirated, and turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
...must not misunderstand what is happening here . . . When we change our national Administration next January, as I firmly believe we will, it will be for the purpose of strengthening our country, cementing our national unity, and waging the peace with greater skill and effectiveness . . . And let no dictator or trigger-happy militarist anywhere make any mistake about that...
...Must Take Risks." Bernadotte, a courageous and stubborn man, was not deterred by the country's temper. Last week he reported on conditions in Jerusalem. "It's like this," he said. "Both Arabs and Jews are trigger-happy. They shoot into the dark at night. They snipe by daylight. Excuse me, but it is a most idiotic thing...